Alpine Skiing - Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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The last great classic of the male Alpine Skiing World Cup is to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Kandahar on 2 will be played two descents and a Giant.
Thursday 26 January 2017 8 minutes reading time
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, municipality located in Bavaria, Germany, is one of the historical sites as far as the entire panorama of winter sports. As for alpine skiing, as well as several tests of the World Cup held since 1970, she has hosted the World Cup of 1978 and those of 2011, and gave birth to some of the greatest performers of the sport, from Rosi Mittermaier Maria Riesch to Höfl-Neureuther family.
As for the other winter sports, Garmisch-Partenkirchen hosts the New Year's Day the second leg of the Four Hills Tour, one of the most important competitions in ski jumping. In its own way also biathlon is tied to this locality, as Magdalena Neuner, the largest ever, is its native land of Bavaria. Finally we can not forget how these snows, were held in 1936 Winter Olympic Games, the only organized from Germany.
The extensive program will start with two descents, an already originally scheduled and that recovers the annulled in Wengen. Theater of the last tests in this discipline before the World Cup will be the historic track Kandahar, Kandahar 2 renamed after the amendments introduced in the World Championships of 2011. The start is located at 1690 meters above sea level and immediately provides the difficult S-Kurve, a prelude to the first steep section called Tröglhang, followed by Olympia-Kurve, where long-hander started the test of the 1936 Games, and the Panorama-Sprung, jump which starts the first of two new sections were born in 2008.
The next Stegerwald is a stretch of fluidity that leads to the curve of ALTE Quelle, after which the Kandahar 2 rejoins the old route. The Eishang, where there is the departure of the Giant, is another nosedive followed by Seilbahnstadelsprung, jump of about fifty meters after which the trail turns to the right and with another jump, the Kramersprung, is entered in the second section was born after the changes of 2008. the Padöls is a long curve to the left that leads all'Auf der Mauer and the Freie Fall, the most outstanding feature of a track of the Alpine Skiing World Cup (92%). Return back to the original route to the Tauber-Schuss, which encourages skaters and leads until the finish line, located at 770 meters above sea level.
In all, 36 editions of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen downhill run so far, 34 of the World Cup and 2 valid for the World Cup. The biggest winners in this race are two protagonists respectively of the 70s and 80s: Roland Collombin won the two tests in 1973 and 1974, Steve Podborski was imposed for three consecutive editions between 1981 and 1984 (in 1983 not he competed).
Among active athletes, the most successful is Erik Guay, who with Kandahar has a very special feeling: January 27, 2007 he won here his first race of the World Cup, on 11 March 2010, during the final, the first SuperG place earned him its specialty cup, while February 12, 2011 won the world gold medal in downhill. Also, with 5 top three overall, the Canadian command along with Didier Cuche ranking relative to the podium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Downhill preceding two giants such as Franz Klammer and Hermann Maier, stood at 4.
Another one on Kandahar got enormous satisfaction is Christof Innerhofer: the South Tyrolean is the only Italian who won the downhill, an event riuscitogli February 23, 2013; Also medals (gold in the Super G, Super Combined silver and bronze in downhill) brought home in the review of 2011 put it together with Zeno Colo (Aspen 1950) and Gustav Thöni (Sapporo 1972) as the only blue capable of winning three medals in the same main event.
Besides Innerhofer, Italy boasts podium in this race thanks to Marcello Varallo, second in the two races held in 1973, Herbert Plank, third in 1974 and 1979, Michael Mair, second in 1987, Pietro Vitalini, second in 1993 and 1997 Peter Runggaldier, third in 1996, Kristian Ghedina, third in 1997 and second in 2000, and Alessandro Fattori, the third in 2004. in total, then, the Azzurri have 11 podiums in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Downhill, 12 if you include the World bronze Innerhofer.
The Descent of Garmisch-Partenkirchen that recovers the annulled in Wengen will be held Friday, January 27 starting at 13:05 hours. One originally scheduled, however, will go on stage Saturday, January 28 from 11:00 am.
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